Whistler Writers Festival names 2024 Writer in Residence
Jennifer Manuel of Vancouver Island won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2017 for her debut novel, "The Heaviness of Things That Float."
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Jennifer Manuel of Vancouver Island won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2017 for her debut novel, "The Heaviness of Things That Float."
On Oct. 14, I attended the Victoria Festival of Authors "Dark Woods and Open Water," a panel of writers at the Langham Theatre.
Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float, told the story of a white nurse who spends 40 years serving a remote First Nations community in northwestern B.C. That book, which won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2017, now has a worthy companion in Manuel’s latest, which features another character trying